@JsonBoa we've never had plans for selling user data without consent. Initial thought for monetization was lead gen for recruitment/job placement, but tough with anonymous users mainly fucking around vs. a more technical / professional network (SO, kaggle, LinkedIn, etc), and also many here are still in school and spread across various international markets. Might be easier now with remote work having gone mainstream.

devRant++ covers some hosting. Some minimal ad revenue for non-user web traffic. devDuck sales helped but very time consuming logistics, hopefully we'll be able to bring those back soon.

@Haxk20 gone

One caveat, if you've unsubscribed from all emails from devRant then you'll never receive the password reset email and are therefore SOL

@JS96 logistics issues became problematic, particularly with duck quality control and cape manufacturing, so devDucks are on hold for now until we figure out a better supply chain. Unfortunately toy manufacturing isn't our specialty, so for the side business of our side business we haven't been able to invest in the best processes. Hopefully they'll be back in the not too distant future. I do love telling people I sell rubber ducks all over the world.

We ran into some supply chain issues, so it might be some time before we can get a better logistics process sorted out. Overall the duck business has been rather time consuming, and as a side business of our side business (we are not expert import/exporters) we haven't invested in figuring out a solid scalable process.

We love them, and we know the community loves them, so hopefully they'll be back some day.

Ha great idea! Something we we probably should have added 6 months ago. I want to say the moment has passed, but it's looking like masks are going to be around for a while...

Glad you enjoyed them! They were fun to make, but a ton of work, espesically getting the lip syncing and facial expressions right were quite tedious. I've been keeping an eye out for deepfake style facial mapping for cartoons, maybe some day they'll be back.

@devTea huh checking now I see them appearing on android and web. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Might be a hiccup in the system that will pass soon, some temporary networking error delivering that content. Please let us know if it continues.

@mentions we have spam as a category for the downvote, so you can use that as well as report. Bots are annoying... If you build it, they will come. Just wait until NLP is good enough and no one can tell the difference...

I have a list of prompt ideas that I review every week. It's 17 pages long. Most are too specific to get enough responses or too closed-ended to get more than one word answers or too wordy to fit the space. After the first 100 or so it got a lot harder because the low hanging fruit questions that most people can easily answer have been asked already.

It has been discussed. It wouldn't be a ridiculous amount of work, but still a lot to deal with impacted layers and things that would need to be repositioned

@C0D4 that could work. We have the </> icon, could do more dev themed iconography

@C0D4 that would be fun, but we've been trying to avoid using trademarks/brands that might give us a hard time

@C0D4 they way we fabricate the capes now, variety is pretty straightforward. What were you hoping for?

The real question is "where is dfox's avatar?" Might be some jank happening with notif lists @dfox

@Superviral Mike Tyson

@ScribeOfGoD it's SukMike's rant, so blocking him from posting comments on his own thread will never be a feature. Jenny was the one to introduce the maturbation topic, which opened some doors, but I agree that the responding comment is more targeted than we'd like to see here, so I'll remove it.

I spoke with @dfox recently about blocking, which has some complications of hiding just for you, hiding for everyone on your thread, hiding from @ mentioning you, hiding from the algo feed, etc, but there might be at least a simple blunt approach that could be an 80% solution.

@srivmanu we put in the basics for SEO-friendliness a year or two ago, and it's been slowly building up since then. Much better than it was!

@embeddedmaikel so sorry! We ordered another batch back in March and somehow missed updating them in the swag store. 😬 They are available now: https://swag.devrant.com/products/...

@Root thanks! I had fun coming up with those titles

My experience was that you get what you pay for, so you need a good incentive to get good designers. Also they wait to the last minute to post to the competition so others don't steal their ideas and try to make them slightly better to win

@linuxxx it would be straightforward, but we've held back on adding more tees since all the colors were getting excessive in the shirt options. We could add a few more. Next batch, I'll get you covered. Ultimately, the plan was to have a graphic tee builder (design attached) but it never got built.

@linuxxx looking badass dude!

@linuxxx bring your game face!

@hypervtechnics we have put a lot of work into creating all those avatar layers that make up the builder, please do not take our work and use it elsewhere for your own projects

The skills charts on resumes and portfolios scream junior to me. Self-described skill levels don't mean much, lots of delusional "experts" out there and without a standard scoring method, 6/10 is not grounded in anything. Some exposure to a software suite is important, so do list them, but tools are overrated imo, your end product is vastly more important than the tool you used.

We were aiming for a niche audience that would actively share the community, as a social network should be inherently viral. Growth has been slower than expected, but that may be because we do minimal re-engagement (we send zero emails right now). Also the nature of ranting against your co-workers makes you less inclined to invite your co-workers.

You're not alone, most people question if they are good enough, even deep into their careers (I include myself in that). A little humility will probably get you more support than if you come in fresh out of school acting like a know it all. Show some gratitude towards those mentoring you and they will be more likely to look out for you. Know that some senior people enjoy the power trip, so even if someone shits on your skills, it doesn't mean you suck. You got this! Good luck!

Awww thanks!